The Women's Fight
The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By Thavolia Glymph
392 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5363-1
Published: February 2020 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5364-8
Published: November 2019 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7250-2
Published: August 2022
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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Awards & distinctions
2021 Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association
2021 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association
2021 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, Organization of American Historians
2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
2021 Mary Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians
2021 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians
2021 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia
Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
Finalist, 2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Glymph shows how the Civil War exposed as never before the nation's fault lines, not just along race and class lines but also along the ragged boundaries of gender. However, Glymph makes clear that women's experiences were not new to the mid-nineteenth century; rather, many of them drew on memories of previous conflicts, like the American Revolution and the War of 1812, to make sense of the Civil War's disorder and death.
About the Author
Thavolia Glymph is Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Duke University and author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household.
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